Sunday, September 1, 2013

Is this the End of the DEA and Mexican Cartels?

It's legal to light up in Colorado
and Washington, and soon smoking pot could be legalized across the
country following a decision Thursday by the federal government.

After Washington state and Colorado passed laws in November 2012
legalizing the consumption and sale of marijuana for adults over 18,
lawmakers in both states waited to see whether the federal government
would continue to prosecute pot crimes under federal statutes in their
states.

Both Colorado and Washington have been working to set up regulatory
systems in order to license and tax marijuana growers and retail
sellers, but have been wary of whether federal prosecutors would come
after them for doing so. They are the first states to legalize pot, and
therefore to go through the process of trying to set up a regulatory
system.

But on Thursday, the Department of Justice announced that it would not prosecute marijuana crimes that were legal under state law, a move that
could signal the end of the country's longtime prohibition on pot is
nearing. "It certainly appears to be potentially the beginning of the
end," said Paul Armantano, deputy director of the pot lobby group NORML...
If they did this here, I'd probably buy some, but I can't see me, or most people, quitting their job to stay home and watch TPIR, with a Tommy Chong Bong in their lap. Hell, I've got 3 beers left over from a 6 pack from the 4th of July! Most of America drinks socially, they likewise, smoke or snort socially.

We'd see more people smoking a bowl, drinking two less beers, eating half a bag of chips, 4 or 5 cookies, some toast, some...SOUP...oh HELL yeah, tomato soup! Then they go to sleep, and get up after 9 or 10 hours of sleep [they started smoking as soon as they got HOME!!], they'd be well ready for work.

How is that a bad thing?

So the DEA going away and the Me's'ican Cartels going away isn't a bad thing. Maybe they can use all those billions the DEA pisses away, on something worthwhile. That's pretty funny, right?

9 comments:

Spider
said...

It'll be a long time before the country abandons it's puritanical ways. By the time the govt. allows us to see Marijuana is not the life-ending, insanity-producing, gateway drug that produces insane killers, (as they've been trying to tell us since the 40's) the cartels will have found a way around any type of legalization, and/or simply switched their focus to other drugs they deal in, such as meth, coke, heroin. They will not simply walk away from tens-of-Billions a year.

But, as we know what the govt. does when it gives itself the power to tax something, and if weed dealers and suppliers are smart enough to lower their prices, folks may still opt to deal with their corner dude.

Spider,I'm with you about the long road to legalization. And the 'government' is only as Puritanical is the people who get elected, and the goofy people who elect them. Plus, there is the schizophrenic aspect of our government. Currently it's legal to murder an unborn child, but not to buy a doobie.

So who KNOWS the who, what, when, where of it.

On pricing and taxing, even the idiots at the gov't level know that they'll make more money with a 5% or 7% tax on MILLIONS of joints, than %50 tax on hundreds of joints.

On the, "...it'll still be cheaper to buy from the guy on the corner, than from a Legal Mary Jane Store on Main Street...". Really? And when was the last time YOU bought liquor from a bootlegger, instead of at a liquor store? don't forget that Ligget & Myers / American Tobacco have brand names and plans for making joints and loose dope. And there's no WAY that they'll be more expensive from the tobacco companies, than from Julio and the homies on the corner, given the companies ability to buy MILLIONS of pounds of dope from the worldwide producers.